Terumo
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3546800008 |
| founding | September 17, 1921 by Kitasato Shibasaburō |
| Seat |
Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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| Number of employees | 19,263 |
| sales | 467.36 billion yen (€ 3.7 billion) |
| Branch | Health technology |
| Website |
Terumo Corporation Terumo Global |
| Status: 2014 | |
The Terumo Corporation ( Japanese テ ル モ 株式会社 , Terumo Kabushiki kaisha ), listed in the Nikkei 225 , is a health technology stock corporation headquartered in the Japanese capital Tokyo .
The product range includes medical devices and accessories for use in hospitals , equipment for operating theaters and special devices for the production and use of blood transfusions .
A new logo was introduced in 2014.
history
One of the company's founders in 1921 was the bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburō . He worked for Robert Koch and Emil von Behring . He gave the company its name. The word Terumo corresponds to the Japanese pronunciation of the German thermometer . Because Kitasato has developed the first reliable clinical thermometer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2014
- ↑ Corporate logo
- ^ Eva Antoni-Merz, Friedrich Mai, Wilhelm Schwöbel, Hans Schadewaldt : Über die Epuchen II , published by Robugen GmbH in Esslingen , 2020 without year and place, p. 61.